Love the true insanity in real things. Without a little bit of madness, it's going to lack depth. Without depth, you are going to skim the border of what's really attainable for you. Without finding your best stuff and what creates your foundation, expansion and happiness will appear like a far away dream. You see, there's a inherent tendency to become seduced with the fast and easy, but that is not where the magic is. The magic lies deep within the depths. The magic takes some soul spelunking. The magic...is in diving out of the boat completely and diving deep down into unexplored waters all while having indestructible faith that you are going to find a patch of air on the way down.
Fear? Embrace it.
When you actually deeply think of it, we live in a world completely full of chaos. Everything is going 1,000,000 miles a minute. Things are consistently collapsing and colliding together. It is a miracle that we are even in a position to function with everything happening around us. Some find their way early and others spend their complete lives searching for some form of meaning that will give them direction. We search out direction, wisdom, and consume great amounts of information to help us try to sound right out of all of this. What is the point of the journey I am on? Who am I while traveling on it? This uncertainty can seduce us into attempting to digest surface level pseudo-spirituality to help us understand ourselves. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about life quotes and the small morsels of knowledge they can reveal to us, but without understanding context and avoiding diving into the depths we set ourselves up for catastrophe. Surface level foundations never work...try building a kingdom on wallpaper.
And that's actually what all this surface level stuff is when it boils down to it - wallpaper. It is what you put over something to cause it to appear all pretty and nice. Life isn't all pretty and nice. Life is mucky. Life is often vicious. Life can test you and bring you to your knees whenever it feels like it. No matter how much you try avoiding certain things happening, life acts as a pro dart thrower, hitting it's target every single time - irrespective of how fast it's moving.
But in real things (thoughts, emotions, experiences) that have some depth to them, they are not wallpaper in the slightest. They've got some madness to them. They are not predictable, doubtful and almost always totally astonishing. They rip the rug out from under you and help you pop right back up when you're down. It's a bit chaotic, but that's the point. The chaos is the pretty part. The chaos is the art. When you begin to live in that place, your whole entire life becomes part of that painting. Then, when you begin to accept that you have a role to play in this world, you can begin to develop the steered hand of the painter.
But you have got to get dirty first.
Roll around in the dirt. Get mud on your face. Tear down the wallpaper. Burn down the termite ridden support beams you have made throughout the years and dance in the ashes of it all. That rock solid ground you are standing on - that's absolutely going to be the location where you build your life. It's time to build it over again and do the work you have absolutely always been scared to do.
What is life without risk? Just surviving.
Fear? Embrace it.
When you actually deeply think of it, we live in a world completely full of chaos. Everything is going 1,000,000 miles a minute. Things are consistently collapsing and colliding together. It is a miracle that we are even in a position to function with everything happening around us. Some find their way early and others spend their complete lives searching for some form of meaning that will give them direction. We search out direction, wisdom, and consume great amounts of information to help us try to sound right out of all of this. What is the point of the journey I am on? Who am I while traveling on it? This uncertainty can seduce us into attempting to digest surface level pseudo-spirituality to help us understand ourselves. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about life quotes and the small morsels of knowledge they can reveal to us, but without understanding context and avoiding diving into the depths we set ourselves up for catastrophe. Surface level foundations never work...try building a kingdom on wallpaper.
And that's actually what all this surface level stuff is when it boils down to it - wallpaper. It is what you put over something to cause it to appear all pretty and nice. Life isn't all pretty and nice. Life is mucky. Life is often vicious. Life can test you and bring you to your knees whenever it feels like it. No matter how much you try avoiding certain things happening, life acts as a pro dart thrower, hitting it's target every single time - irrespective of how fast it's moving.
But in real things (thoughts, emotions, experiences) that have some depth to them, they are not wallpaper in the slightest. They've got some madness to them. They are not predictable, doubtful and almost always totally astonishing. They rip the rug out from under you and help you pop right back up when you're down. It's a bit chaotic, but that's the point. The chaos is the pretty part. The chaos is the art. When you begin to live in that place, your whole entire life becomes part of that painting. Then, when you begin to accept that you have a role to play in this world, you can begin to develop the steered hand of the painter.
But you have got to get dirty first.
Roll around in the dirt. Get mud on your face. Tear down the wallpaper. Burn down the termite ridden support beams you have made throughout the years and dance in the ashes of it all. That rock solid ground you are standing on - that's absolutely going to be the location where you build your life. It's time to build it over again and do the work you have absolutely always been scared to do.
What is life without risk? Just surviving.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is the author and creator of The Words Of Encouragement a website devoted to bringing audiences encouraging blogs, life changing quotes, videos and other content to help people follow their passions and purposes.
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